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"There should be a course in the first grade on love."
"Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute."
"One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact."
"Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty."
"We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth."
"You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings."
"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."
"The vaccinations are not working, and they are dangerous.. We should be working with nature."
"No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!"
"One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain."
"In politics evils should be remedied not revenged."
"I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short."
"Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention."
"They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic."
"It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul."
"I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him."
"A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole."
"Without a purpose, nothing should be done."
"Every Mussalman should serve Pakistan honestly, sincerely and selflessly."